After weeks of excuses and how their troops not only hostage were but were targeted, the UN an urgent request to France, so that the heavy weapons held by Mr Gbabgo forces as the target. While the UN action to prevent a further escalation has described a humanitarian crisis as driven by the desire, the decision appears reflects a policy shift within the UN.
Here, our correspondent Africa Ginny is stone.
GINNY STEIN: stock finally would bring the hope that elections in a country come November peace from the civil war, but 10 years after its last bitter internal conflict is to end the cycle. Shots and birdsong were familiar all too recently sounds in Abidjan.
For four months, diplomatic efforts have been made to resolve the political impasse in C?te d'Ivoire, but to no avail. When forces Abidjan trying to delete Laurent Gbagbo stormed the cycle had changed gears once again.
But outgunned, which was in danger of being not so much but spiral out of control, with the three million residents of Abidjan hostage one looming bloodbath entrenched themselves.
The UN Deputy Secretary General for human rights, Ivan Simonvic, says that the use of heavy weapons by forces against the people of Abidjan was Mr Gbagbo a key factor for their mandate to expand the resolutions of UN.
IVAN SIMONVIC: In Abidjan we had a situation when the according to estimate the medics, have head between 100 and 200 civilians who died as a result of targeted orientation heavy artillery. Those who were killed by bullets so I'm not calculation however, which were affected by the heavy weapons.
At the same time, we had a series of attacks in the United Nations to other ground of the response of the United Nations in the Act is self-defense.
GINNY STEIN: the United Nations preventive measures seems to show a new consensus among the members of the UN Security Council about his legal and moral role in the protection of civilians.
Richard Moncrieff, a political analyst at South Africa's Institute for security studies, says that the UN last failures in Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur would have had a role in influencing the decision right to strike.
RICHARD MONCRIEFF: Some of these conflicts, where they do not intervene and things wrong bad, can be read as one of the factors here, that people do not want to see, this sort of thing being reviewed.
GINNY stone: for four months, the UN attempts to bring about a political solution while his forces on the ground tried to control an increasingly violent situation.
Mr Moncrieff says that the UN is partially frustrated was Laurent Gbagbo understanding the UN perceived weaknesses and the tactics he used to maintain the pressure.
RICHARD MONCRIEFF: they have not had much effect in C?te d'Ivoire so far and the reason for this is that the protagonists, and especially the camp of Laurent Gbagbo understand very well, in particular they tend to deal with the United Nations, unarmed civilians in the way set, this is something that the United Nations are very poorly equipped to deal with - unrest especially urban unrest, which the UN not well in C?te d'Ivoire have traded in the last 10 years.
So you know, there are reasons why they have no longer fully up to now, but I think at this point, you know, it is a reputational risk at stake for the United Nations, you know, if it can not all do, to a massacre if it already has troops directly on the ground in Abidjan, then I think people would start to stop questions, you know, what good is it?
GINNY STEIN: but what comes next is the biggest challenge of the country. Life goes to Laurent Gbagbo, the biggest challenge in a country that not only are shared but where hate speech has long prevailed between the various ethnic populations.
RICHARD MONCRIEFF: The problem of how the country can be ruled and brought under control is extremely difficult be. The population of C?te d'Ivoire was fed drip a discourse of hate for years and years now and it has really poisoned the relationship between different populations, and it will make it extremely difficult.
GINNY STEIN: more than ever before, subdivided unresolved massacres and legions of the fighters, who in may be convinced one the spoils of war that its a country, lay down their arms, but not Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara are their loyalty.
This is Ginny Stein report reporting for correspondent.
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